So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven.
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… and it's off the charts. Luke chapter 10, verse 18. Luke 10, 18 says, And he said to them, Jesus, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. The disciples were preaching the gospel. He sent them out, and they're preaching the gospel. They're healing the sick. And they came back to tell Jesus, This is amazing! And he says to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Wow. You know what's so cool about that? See the word fall? Jesus said, I saw Satan get beat down. Pipto is the Greek word. I saw Satan get a beat down. He got tripped up. He got shoved down, down to the ground. He failed. Implication? Satan was seen stumbling, falling down and being defeated when the gospel ministry went forth. Isn't that amazing? When the gospel's proclaimed, Satan gets tripped up and stumbles and falls. …
… And Jesus said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Now what's amazing about this is Jesus sends them out with his power, and he reports, he didn't have to tell us this. While you guys were ministering, while you guys were out there, coming up against the kingdom of darkness, I saw Satan's kingdom fall. think of that what does that mean well we we know this satan is still out and about but he's lost his authority he listen satan will brag will boast and will assume his authority but jesus said his kingdom is broken his kingdom has been defeated with the coming of Christ. Think of this. So he's a liar and he says, you are a child of molestation and you'll always be broken. …
… And he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Stop right there. I saw Satan fall like lightning. Jesus never said that when the twelve went out. Jesus never said that when the 12 were released. It was when the larger company of people went into an area they had so disrupted the spiritual realm, not by attacking demons, but by loving people. They had so disrupted that Jesus said, I saw Satan himself, not a demon, not a principality. I saw Satan himself fall like lightning. What happened? there was a disruption with the agreement that the enemy had with the lives and the hearts of people. And they went out in mass with the same purpose, the same understanding that our assignment is to bring the life of Christ into the broken situation of this world. And when they did that, Jesus's testimony was, I saw Satan fall like lightning. The ministry of the gospel from Luke 10 on is completely different than before. The deliverances, the way things happened after this point, they were completely different. …
… Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name. And he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. We'll explain this story a bit more in a moment, but I want you to notice that Satan didn't fall like lightning when the 12 were sent. It was when the 70 were sent. we'll look at it in a moment. Jesus empowered them to go and do the work of the ministry. And you'll notice he never trained them, taught them how to pull down principalities. He never taught them how to destroy the demonic strongholds in heavenly places. What he taught them was how to use authority and power to bring healing and deliverance to individuals. The man of the Gadarenes is one of my favorite stories in this storyline. He was, it was so tormented that when he was finally delivered, the demons went into 2,000 pigs creating deviled ham, and they... It was all hogwash. And they committed suicide. And the whole economy went belly up. …